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15N CPMG Relaxation Dispersion for the Investigation of Protein Conformational Dynamics on the µs-ms Timescale
Published on: April 19, 2021
Transverse relaxation optimized HCN experiment for nucleic acids: combining the advantages of TROSY and MQ spin
1Institut de Biologie Structurale, Jean-Pierre Ebel CNRS-CEA, Grenoble, France. Bernhard.Brutscher@ibs.fr
Abstract:
A three-dimensional MQ-TROSY-HCN pulse sequence is presented which provides intra-base and sugar-to-base correlations for 13C, 15N labeled nucleic acids (RNA, DNA). The experiment simultaneously exploits the favorable relaxation properties of 1H-13C multiple quantum coherence for sugar carbons and of 13C TROSY-type spin evolution for base carbons. MQ-TROSY-HCN thus combines the advantages of MQ-HCN for sugar-to-base and TROSY-HCN for intra-base correlations in a single experiment. In addition, two slightly different implementations of the MQ-TROSY-HCN experiment ensure optimal performance for small and larger oligonucleotides, respectively. The advantages of the MQ-TROSY-HCN experiment compared to the best previous implementations of HCN are demonstrated for a 33 nucleotide RNA aptamer.
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